Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-02-18

,,;nie made his escape from the guards last
,reek and walked all the way back to the pen
;tentiarv $50 miles. He told the officers he
was willing to serve his time but wanted no
more railroad work.
Rev. R. P. Bell, who has been filling the
nulpit of the Harrisonburg Presbyterian
church. has accepted call to Wilson, N. @.
Rev. Mr.. Smith, the recent pastor of that
church. who is son of General Smith, of the
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, has
accepted the position of travelling solicitor
for that institution.
On railroad train in Kentucky, Col. John
s. Mosby while asleep in his seat, had stolen
from him his valise, containing his broad
cloth lecture suit the manuscript copy of his
lecture, and every thing else he had with him
except what was on his person.
Miss Lula Hurst, the magnetic girl of Ce-
dertown, Ca, who before her phenomenal
strength deserted her, made 5000, 900 by ex-
hhitions of it on the stage throughout the
country, was married on Thursday to Paul L.
Atkinson, her business manager during her
tours. lQrOuRu 5uT0Wu Uublu05S investment
her money has increased to nearly $500, 600
Various merchants and tradesmen of Au-
gusta Ga, are suing the General Executive
Board Knights of Labor at Philadelphia for
bills amounting to about So, 900, incurred by
strikers during the recent mill lockout there.
The constitution of the order requires the
Board to pay such debts out of the general
treasury.
When the late W. H. Fry the only Ameri.
can composer of Opera that ever had any sue
cess, was lying bed-ridden in his home in
New York, hGhad q telephone put up to the
Opera House. During the last two years of
his life he was accustomed to sit propped up
in bed while opera was going on at the Acad-
envy, telephone in one hand and the ibretto
of the opera in the other. At the foot of the
bed, standing up against the footboard, were
tthe photographs Of the chief singers engaged
Nm the performance.
The Wytheyille (Va y Enterprise" says
that during the past season ISIS, 269 pounds
of cabbage were shipped from Rural Retreat
station near there, which averaged one cent
pound, or 1913, 900 for the whole They were
raised on less than 100 acres of land, and the
land yielded at that rate $3.50 to the acre.
There are fifty State squirrels on the Capt.
toll Square grounds at Richmond, and every
morning gallon of walnuts are cracked and
fed to them. The feeder only has to whistle
to have the squirrels crowd around him.
The Salvation Army in East Portland, Me-,
halted in front of saloon on Sunday and be-
gan singing lines, the words of which were, vt
is water we want not beer" The accommo-
dating saloon keeper turned the hose on them,
thoroughly drenching the whole party.
John Tillet, drummer boy of the war of
1872, was killed by the cars while walking
the track near Salem, Roanoke county, last
week. He was ninety years old and could
still dig wells and maui rails.
Capt. Dan M. Lee, brother of Gov. Fitz-
hugh Lee, is reported dangerously i'll at his
home in Stafford with infammatory rheuma-
tism.
r. L. Fitzgerald, of Austin, Field & Co., of
Philadelphia, of coupon notoriety, visited
Franklin, Va, on the 10th inst, in the inter-
est of his house. The merchants there with
one accord refused to examine his samples or
to buy of him.